Lancaster, PA

This morning we headed north on US 13 stopped for fuel a few miles down the road. Diesel had dropped a whole 6 cents a gallon since our arrival a week ago now $3.99 a gallon. There went another $400. Traveling past more farm land with wheat and growing corn, we also passed a Perdue & Tyson chicken processing plant. As we traveled into Maryland it became more farm like with larger fields. After 40 miles or so and passing through Salisbury we entered Delaware. As we came nearer Dover the traffic became noticeably heavier but we still had the flat sandy farmland interspersed with trees. At Dover we entered Us 1 a toll road it took 2 $4 tolls to cover the 50 miles to the Newark, Wilmington, Delaware area. That was a lot cheaper than the $28 that it cost us to cross the Chesapeake Bay bridge last week. We then went north on I-95 for about 5 miles and managed to get into one traffic jam. It took about 30 minutes to travel that distance before heading NW on US 41 into Pennsylvania. Another 50 miles traveling the rolling tree cover hills and farm country brought us to Lancaster where we are staying at Outdoor World Circle M campground just to the south of Millersville. We traveled about 230 miles today. We decided we wanted some good Dutch cooking so we went to the Good & Plenty just east of Lancaster. You eat family style and we were seated at a table with 6 ladies from Harrisburg. We started out with coleslaw, chicken salad, chow-chow, white & wheat home baked bread, white butter and apple butter. Next they brought a bowl of creamy mashed potatoes, gravy, cooked pickled beets, corn, buttered noodles. Then a platter each of roast beef, fried chicken & pork tube sausage. For desert there was tapioca pudding, cheese cake, blueberry crumb pie, shoefly pie & ice cream. Since we are trying to watch what we eat I made sure that I watched every bite as I slowly sampled every thing except the ice cream (opting for a second bowl of tapioca) stuffing myself until I was about to burst. We arrived this afternoon in the rain and it has rained off & on since.